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Old 28 Jul 2009, 4:30 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: The work of Morgan led to the understanding of sex linkage, yes, but..

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Originally Posted by sinophile View Post
I dont quite get what you're talking about. Im pretty damn sure thats not the reasoning they used, anyway.
Morgan studied fruit flies testing eye color
He crossed a red eyed female with a white eyed male, and found that not all results were consistent with Mendelian crosses, as half of the F2 generation males were white eyed
He then suggested that some genes were sex linked, because they were carried on the x chromosome.
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